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Going Strong in Westbrook

Gary and Laurie Rairdon honor their son’s passion for nursing by raising funds for the Matthew Rairdon ’13 Memorial Scholarship. When Matthew Rairdon’s life ended tragically in 2013—the same year he graduated from the College and got a job as a nurse in the emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Portland—his family rallied supporters to [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:39-04:00August 1st, 2015|Categories: Summer 2015|Tags: , |

A Decade of Building Florence Dussault’s Legacy

A decade since the passing of Florence Godfrey “Flo” Dussault ’96, family and friends have kept her legacy going strong by founding and raising funds regularly for the Florence G. Dussault ’96 Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is for a nursing student from Massachusetts who demonstrates a strong commitment to community service, academic achievement, and athletics. [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:39-04:00August 1st, 2015|Categories: Summer 2015|Tags: , |

Hope in South Sudan

As South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, faces a critical humanitarian crisis, one of Saint Joseph’s own is doing his part to help alleviate the desperate need for support. By Stefanie Martel ’15 Curtis Tyler ’01 is currently stationed in South Sudan with Medair, an aid organization that works to relieve human suffering in some [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:40-04:00August 1st, 2015|Categories: Summer 2015|Tags: , |

Alumnus Crosses the Country for Autism Awareness

The third and final stage of the Three Stage Tour to Endure, a cycling fundraising event to raise funds and awareness for Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, is set to begin next month near Seattle, Washington. Team D-Tour, comprised of the DiSalvo family from Derry, Hampshire, including Saint Joseph’s College [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:40-04:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Highlights|Tags: |

Pinning Ceremony Recognizes 78 Graduating Nurses

On Friday, May 8, family members, friends, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate the class of 2015 nursing graduates at Saint Joseph’s College’s annual Nursing Pinning Ceremony. First held at Saint Joseph’s in 1978, Friday’s pinning ceremony recognized 78 nursing graduates: 66 from the College’s bachelor’s program, and 12 from the online master’s program. Nursing [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:41-04:00May 8th, 2015|Categories: Highlights|Tags: , |

Westbrook Strong 5K honors 2013 alumnus, endows scholarship

On July 20, 2014, more than 40 members of the Saint Joseph’s College community gathered to run and walk in the Westbrook Strong 5K. The event was a memorial to Matthew Rairdon ’13, a nursing graduate who worked at Portland’s Mercy Hospital. He passed away tragically in November 2013. “Matt was an amazing young man,” [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:42-04:00February 1st, 2015|Categories: Winter 2015|Tags: , |

Alumni teach leadership on the court in Kazakhstan

Two former Saint Joseph’s basketball players have taken their passion for the game overseas. Chris Petzy ’12 and Meg Daigle ’11 spent the summer coaching basketball to youth through the Drive School of Basketball in Kazakhstan. Based out of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Drive is an intensive training program for basketball players from ages 11 to 18. [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:42-04:00February 1st, 2015|Categories: Winter 2015|Tags: , |

CAP: The Original Homeland Security

Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard…Civil Air Patrol? Meet your volunteer eyes in the skies. By Nico Tarquinio ’10 Early in the morning, dawn patrol members document their routine reports before taking off from their base headquarters in Bar Harbor, Maine, in 1943. Photo credit: CAP Bar Harbor John Collier Library of Congress It was 1941. [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:43-04:00February 1st, 2015|Categories: Winter 2015|Tags: |

A Welcomed Light

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, members of the Saint Joseph’s community huddled outside on a chilly fall evening and watched years of planning come to fruition as President Jim Dlugos set the College’s brand new fire pit aflame. Initially conceived as the Alumni Association’s inauguration gift to the president, the project evolved to become a [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:43-04:00February 1st, 2015|Categories: Winter 2015|Tags: , |

Healing at Camp Kita

Camp Kita is named after the Abenaki word for “listen.” And that’s what Sydney Mosher ’10, her siblings, and Nichole Ivey ’08 are doing—creating a healing environment for children who have suffered loss, guided by the insight of the Mosher family. By Diane Atwood ’77 A few days before Sydney Mosher ’10 turned 14, her [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:45-04:00May 30th, 2014|Categories: Spring 2014|Tags: , |